Florida basketball’s Walter Clayton Jr. made Wooden Award Late Midseason Top 20 watch list

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John R. Wooden Award Men’s Late Midseason Top 20 Watch List was released on Wednesday by the Los Angeles Athletic Club, which included Florida Gators star guard Walter Clayton Jr. among its ranks.

The senior originally from Lake Wales, Florida, leads the Gators in scoring with 17.5 points per game while also holding the top spot with 64 3-point field goals made and 94 assists dished out. Clayton also ranks among the Southeastern Conference’s top 10 in scoring (eighth, 17.5), field goal percentage (ninth, 45.4%), assists (eighth, 4.0), free throw percentage (fifth, 87.0%), 3-point field goals made (fourth, 2.7), 3-point field goal percentage (sixth, 36.6%) and minutes (10th, 31.8).

The guard has posted six games of 25 points or more this season — and eight games with four or more 3-point field goals — in games played this season. He also made a 3-point shot in a school record 44 straight games before sitting out against the Vanderbilt Commodores with an injured ankle.

Wooden Award Late Midseason Top 20

Airious “Ace” Bailey, Rutgers

Johni Broome, Auburn

Walter Clayton Jr., Florida

Hunter Dickinson, Kansas

Eric Dixon, Villanova

Cooper Flagg, Duke

Keshon Gilbert, Iowa St

PJ Haggerty, Memphis

Dylan Harper, Rutgers

Kasparas Jakučionis, Illinois

Curtis Jones, Iowa State

Kam Jones, Marquette

Ryan Kalkbrenner, Creighton

Alex Karaban, UConn

Chaz Lanier, Tennessee

Ryan Nembhard, Gonzaga

Maxime Raynaud, Stanford

Mark Sears, Alabama

Javon Small, West Virginia

Braden Smith, Purdue

About the John R. Wooden Award

“Selected by a panel of national college basketball experts, the list comprises 20 student-athleteswho are frontrunners for the most prestigious honors in college basketball: the Wooden AwardAll-American Team and the Wooden Award Most Outstanding Player,” according to the award’s website.

“Previous Wooden Award All-American Hunter Dickinson (Kansas 2024 & Michigan 2021)continues to lead the list. Rutgers has two players represented on the Wooden Award LateMidseason List.”

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Publish date : 2025-02-12 20:24:00

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